Registries do not all lay out tarball URLs the way the npm registry does.
JFrog Artifactory repeats the scope in a scoped package's tarball filename
(`@acme/widget/-/@acme/widget-1.0.0.tgz`) where npm strips it. pnpm cannot
rebuild such a URL, so it writes it out for every scoped package instead of
omitting it, and the lockfile carries a host-specific URL per dependency.
pnpm had no place to record such a fact, because it had no place to
describe a registry at all — only three ways to name one. `registries`
mapped a scope to a URL, `namedRegistries` mapped a bare-specifier prefix
to a URL, and neither could carry anything else.
`registries` now declares a registry once, keyed by its URL, with every
fact about it in the entry: a `serverType`, the `scopes` routed to it,
and the `prefix` it answers to. `serverType` has three states:
undeclared strict; only the exact canonical URL is reconstructible
npm also serves the percent-encoded scoped path
artifactory repeats the scope in the tarball filename
registry.npmjs.org resolves to `npm` as a built-in, so its behavior is
unchanged and the old hostname check becomes that one default rather than a
special case in the predicate. `npm` cannot be the default: asserting
npmjs-compatibility is a claim only the operator can make.
The URL is the key because every fact in an entry is a fact about that
server. Keying the layout by scope would bind it to whoever the scope
currently points at, so two developers whose scope resolves differently
would write lockfiles that disagree about which URLs may be omitted.
`scopes` and `prefix` are routes to the registry and are inverted at
config-read time into the two lookups the rest of pnpm already queries,
leaving the resolver, installer, and lockfile layers untouched and the
precedence chain (builtin < .npmrc < yaml < `_auth` < CLI) unchanged.
The layout is declared, never inferred. Sniffing the registry URL cannot work:
a virtual repository serves both layouts at once, depending on whether each
package was synced from upstream or published locally, so no registry-level
signal — route, response header, or probe — decides it. Declaring it also
keeps a wrong guess a fixable misconfiguration instead of a silent breakage.
`serverType` feeds a single URL builder that both sides of the lockfile use:
the writer omits a tarball URL only when the builder reproduces it, and the
reader rebuilds it with the same call. They therefore agree by construction,
so pnpm never has to assume a registry serves some second URL as well.
The setting lives in pnpm-workspace.yaml rather than .npmrc because the
lockfile depends on it: one developer omitting URLs that another reconstructs
differently would break a frozen install. A `serverType` in the global
config.yaml is ignored for the same reason, while the routes declared
alongside it are kept. Credentials are rejected there — the file is
committed — and still belong in .npmrc. The registry URL is the map key, so
the request-destination env gate applies to keys as well as values.
Credentials and unknown fields are refused after parsing, since a parse
error renders the offending source line verbatim.
A map whose values are all strings is the older `<scope>: <url>` shape and
is still read as one. Mixing the two shapes in one map is refused, and so is
a URL-keyed entry written as a string. `namedRegistries` is deprecated in
favor of `prefix` and is read only for prefixes `registries` does not
declare; a prefix stays singular because it is the registry's identity in a
lockfile dep path.
An entry that routes nothing to itself and matches no configured registry is
reported as a warning rather than silently ignored; it is a warning and not
an error because a shared config dependency can legitimately describe
registries a given project does not use.
Config dependencies and pnpr-server-mode resolution pass no server type; in
both, the writer and the reader share that default, so they stay consistent.
Closespnpm/get-npm-tarball-url#16. Supersedes pnpm/pnpm#13920.
The dlx cache path is <cacheDir>/dlx/<key>/<prepare>/node_modules/.pnpm/
<pkgId>/node_modules/<pkg>. The <key> (64-char sha256 hex) and <prepare>
(<time>-<pid> in hex) segments are dlx overhead on top of pnpm's already-
deep virtual-store layout. For a transitive dep with a long name this tips
the package directory over Windows' MAX_PATH (260) — measured at 259 chars
for @pnpm.e2e/pre-and-postinstall-scripts-example in the dlx e2e test. A
lifecycle script then runs with that directory as its cwd, and CreateProcess
fails to resolve an over-length cwd, which Node surfaces as the confusing
"spawn C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe ENOENT". Flaky rather than constant
because the <prepare> and temp-dir segments vary in length, straddling 260.
Shorten both dlx-specific segments:
- cache key: createShortHash (32 hex, 128 bits) instead of createHexHash
(64). pacquet already truncated to 32, so this also restores parity.
- prepare dir: encode time and pid in base36 instead of hex.
The TypeScript pnpm CLI freezes at v11; pnpm 12 will be the Rust pacquet
port. To make that split legible, all TypeScript source, test, and build
directories move under a new top-level pnpm11/ directory. The name states
the version boundary rather than implying a behavioral fork, since the two
stacks are meant to behave identically.
Scope is source-only: the shared workspace root stays at the repo root.
pnpm-workspace.yaml, package.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, .pnpmfile.cjs,
.meta-updater, __patches__, .changeset, .husky, and the lint/spell configs
remain in place, so one pnpm workspace and one Cargo workspace still span
all three products. pnpr/client and pacquet/tasks/registry-mock stay as
cross-product workspace members.
Rewiring the move required:
- pnpm-workspace.yaml globs prefixed with pnpm11/
- root package.json script paths, eslint.config.mjs, tsconfig.lint.json,
.gitignore, and CODEOWNERS updated
- .meta-updater/src/index.ts literals repointed (pnpm11/pnpm/package.json,
pnpm11/__utils__, pnpm11/__typings__, and the main package directory)
- regenerated every moved package's repository/homepage URL via meta-updater
- pnpm11/pnpm/bundle-deps.ts and __utils__/scripts/src/typecheck-only.ts
climb one more level to reach the repo root
.meta-updater stays at the repo root because @pnpm/meta-updater resolves
its config at <cwd>/.meta-updater/main.mjs.
TS CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) now only runs when pnpm11/-relevant paths
change, via a dorny/paths-filter changes job plus a TS CI / Success
aggregate gate; branch protection should require only that gate.
Zoltan Kochan